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... reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative ...
... reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative ...
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... readers of to - day , like some huge mass of ancient granite on the far horizon of the literature of France . While the Chansons de Geste were develop- ing in numerous cycles of varying merit , an- other group of narrative poems ...
... readers of to - day , like some huge mass of ancient granite on the far horizon of the literature of France . While the Chansons de Geste were develop- ing in numerous cycles of varying merit , an- other group of narrative poems ...
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... reader it might appear to be simply the work of a buffoon or a madman . But such a conception of it would be totally mistaken . The more closely one examines it , the more forcibly one must be struck alike by its immense powers of THE ...
... reader it might appear to be simply the work of a buffoon or a madman . But such a conception of it would be totally mistaken . The more closely one examines it , the more forcibly one must be struck alike by its immense powers of THE ...
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... readers with every conceivable piece of in- formation concerning his history , his charac- ter , his appearance , his health , his habits , and his tastes . Here lies the peculiar charm of his book - the endless garrulity of its confi ...
... readers with every conceivable piece of in- formation concerning his history , his charac- ter , his appearance , his health , his habits , and his tastes . Here lies the peculiar charm of his book - the endless garrulity of its confi ...
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... reader , or the listener ( for indeed the verse of Corneille loses half its value when it is unheard ) , on a full - flowing tide of lan- guage , where the waves of the verse , follow- ing one another in a swift succession of ever ...
... reader , or the listener ( for indeed the verse of Corneille loses half its value when it is unheard ) , on a full - flowing tide of lan- guage , where the waves of the verse , follow- ing one another in a swift succession of ever ...
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age of Louis artistic Balzac beauty Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristic charm CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES civilisation classical complete Corneille critical detail Diderot dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate English exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature genius human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence intensity Jean de Meung language Les Misérables letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France Louis XIV master medieval melancholy ment Middle Ages mind modern Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature ness never noble Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry political precisely produced Professor profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realise Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth University verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers
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Page 126 - Dieu et la nature sont en tout cela ce qu'il n'admire point; il ne va pas plus loin que l'oignon de sa tulipe, qu'il ne livrerait pas pour mille écus, et qu'il donnera pour rien quand les tulipes seront négligées et que les œillets auront prévalu. Cet homme raisonnable, qui a une âme, qui a un culte et une religion, revient chez soi fatigué, affamé, mais fort content de sa journée : il a vu des tulipes.
Page 60 - Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ? Quelle nouveauté, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction, quel prodige ! Juge de toutes choses, imbécile ver de terre; dépositaire du vrai, cloaque d'incertitude et d'erreur ; gloire et rebut de l'univers.
Page 118 - Jupin pour chaque état mit deux tables au monde : L'adroit, le vigilant, et le fort, sont assis A la première ; et les petits Mangent leur reste à la seconde.